New proof of Ivory Coast vote killings

At least 113 bodies are still being held nearly three months later, and have not been released to families.
Workers say government minders are stationed outside morgues to monitor what goes in or out.
The number of deaths in the West African nation is likely much higher though because the AP was refused access to five morgues.
Human rights groups have accused security forces loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo of abducting and killing political opponents.
Gbagbo has clung to power after the UN said he lost the vote, and his government hasn’t given the go-ahead for autopsies on the bodies.
 

Meanwhile, Gbagbo's government threatened legal action on Tuesday against the local units of French bank BNP Paribas and America’s Citibank for shutting down operations in the crisis-torn state.
BNP Paribas’s Ivorian unit BICICI, the second biggest banking operation in the country, closed shop on Monday, citing “the unstable situation in Ivory Coast.”
Citibank was also shut, with no reason given, but the company said it was monitoring the situation.
The West African nation has been in turmoil since a disputed Nov. 28 presidential election between incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and rival Alassane Ouattara, after which the two set up parallel governments.
“The government of Ivory Coast condemns this malpractice, especially on the part of BICICI, which has illustrated in the recent past a willingness to stifle the Ivorian economy,” a statement from Gbagbo’s team said.
“The Attorney General is instructed to initiate immediate legal action against both banks,” it added.
The power struggle in Ivory Coast has hit the banking sector as Ouattara, backed by Western nations and regional bodies, tries to cut Gbagbo’s access to funds to force him from power.
West Africa’s monetary union last month cut off Gbagbo’s access to state accounts at West Africa’s BCEAO central bank and he responded by sending soldiers to seize its Abidjan branch, forcing it to close operations in Ivory Coast completely.
That has led to huge liquidity problems and delays clearing cheques, which have had to be done manually, without the system.
Banking sources say the military has since intimidated banks into participating in a new clearing system set up in the building Gbagbo seized. Some have received death threats.
The statement added that the Treasury had been instructed to close accounts at these banks and set up new ones elsewhere to enable salary payments of civil servants to go ahead.